Category: Literature

Man is a story-creating animal. They weave a web of stories around themselves to fathom their relationship with their surroundings. They narrativize some event or incident through numerous discourses into an undeniable fact. In fact, in no time these narratives acquire mythic proportion. Battles, conspiracies, adventurous journeys, evil tempter, heroic warriors, all from the basic…

The issue of ethnic mixing was a crucial problem in the USA in the 19th century: “There are very large numbers of mulattoes. They are mistaken, and not unnaturally. A score of black children are passed unnoticed; one mulatto is observed. In a country peopled with only one race there might be as many children…

Table of Contents Summary Characters Setting Conflicts Symbolism Significance Themes Work Cited Summary Clay, a twenty year old black man is taking the subway. At first glance he looks like an educated black man. Lulu on the other hand is a thirty year old white woman. She is a decade older than Clay. She is…

Nowadays, it is not a difficult task to find a literary source that may capture the reader’s attention in several seconds. However, the worth and quality of such sources cannot be checked and proved the same easy way. Recently, I got a chance to read a book by Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie:…

Table of Contents Introduction Main text Conclusion References Introduction Write what you know. It is a commonly heard piece of advice offered to writers of every genre, including poetry, and illustrates the importance of understanding context in order to understand a given work. For most writers, whether they intend to follow this advice or not,…

Since so much of her work has appeared for the first time in the 21st century, Emily Dickinson seems almost a contemporary; and her unevenness, her paradoxes, and conceits are well suited to present-day conventions. But a great number of her verses are inchoative rather than finished–a fact clear enough to herself but often lost…

Values in “Bread Givers” by Anzia Yezierska The aim of this essay is to detail the predicaments faced by Sara Smolinsky in Anzia Yezierska’s novel, Bread Givers, largely due to conflicts between old world values represented by her country of origin in Eastern Europe, and early 20th century, modern American values. Using the novel as…

Table of Contents Introduction Love and Commitment Respect Hope Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Happy Endings is a narrative by Margaret Atwood that explains the nature of marriages in society. According to the author, marriages do not always end in happiness. In fact, the only happy ending is found in the first part of the story…

According to James Joyce, the narrator, Mrs. Mooney who was married to his father’s foreman, but is separated now from her husband owns the Boarding House. At first, she is a quite and self-determined woman who later reacts due to her husbands drinking problems and fighting him in front of customers. Mr. Mooney seems to…

Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion References Introduction This book depicts a Lakota narration in the truest sense. In that Joseph M. Marshall is a Lakota himself, grown up by family and grandfathers, trained to give esteem to, join in and most prominently – be accountable to a Lakota way of life. At the middle…